Happy International Scrapbooking Day! The biggest scrapbooking weekend of the year is here! Or at least that’s what I tell my husband because who are we kidding? We all know iNSD is just as much about the shopping as it is the scrapping.

If you’re new to Holiday Faves, Holiday Faves is my solution for creating an easy, stress-free holiday mini album.

No more worrying about capturing daily details or getting behind, the focus here is simply on capturing your top ten favorite things from the holiday season, using all the digital scrapbooking supplies you already know and love.

This year will be my fourth time doing the Holiday Faves and if there’s one thing I’ve learned about doing projects like this, it’s that they’re so much more fun when you do them with others!

So this year when you purchase the Holiday Faves, in addition to a brand-new set of mini album templates designed by me, you’ll also receive access to the first ever Holiday Faves project-based class.

As part of the class, you’ll receive the Holiday Faves Planning Guide, weekly emails from me with words of encouragement and tips, and access to a private Facebook group where you can ask questions, share your work and get to know other Holiday Favers.

This year’s templates are 6×8 inches which is not only a great size for a small album or photo book, but it also happens to scale down perfectly to 3×4 inches for all you pocket scrapbookers out there.

The Holiday Faves 2014 project class will run from Monday, December 1st to Monday, December 29th. Registration is now open and will close December 8th.

As a special Black Friday treat, I’m offering an early bird price of $20 for anyone who signs up for Holiday Faves between now and Friday, November 28th.

Holiday Faves is one of my absolute favorite projects of the year so I hope you’ll join me on this holiday scrapbooking adventure!

This is it folks! Friday, November 7th is here which means TODAY is the very last day to grab the DSD Limited Edition Digi Scrap Love Templates here at Nettio Designs.

For those of you who’ve asked, YES these are the ONLY new 12×12-inch single layout digital scrapbooking templates I’ll be releasing in 2014. I’m also using these as a gauge for my plans moving forward, so if you like these and want to see more, be sure to let me know.

These are some of my personal favorite templates I’ve done in a long, long time and I have no doubt they’ll be some of yours too.

To purchase these templates or see more details, click the link below. Sales of these templates ends tonight at midnight US Central DST.

In honor of Digital Scrapbooking Day last weekend, I released an all-new limited set of digital scrapbooking templates, Digi Scrap Love, here at Nettio Designs. Since tomorrow, Friday November 7th is the final day to grab them, I wanted to take a minute today to give you a closer look at each of the four templates.

Most template designers will tell you that templates are awesome because they save you time – and depending on your scrapbooking style and skill-level, that can be true.

But my personal favorite reason for using templates is as a jumping off point for my own creativity.

No more worrying about “Where should I put my photo?” or “Will my title look good if I put it here?” Simply use the template as a guide for the foundation of your layout and then embellish and customize the template to your heart’s content for a look that’s 100% unique to your story and style.

Template No. 1 in the Digi Scrap Love Templates features a single photo, six grid design and vertically divided background. Open white space in the background of the layout is a great place to add a punch of your own style. In my case, I chose to add a blended version of my photo to really drive my story home.

Template No. 2 in the Digi Scrap Love Templates features a nine-grid design. Grids are one my absolute favorite layout foundation for creative scrapbooking, not only for their clean-lined look, but because I love the way the blocks give me “homes” for all my photos and details. Playing with digiscrap goodies is part of the fun and this template gives you plenty of room to do just that.

Template No. 3 in the Digi Scrap Love Templates features a bold edge-to-edge triangle design perfect for mixing and matching all that gorgeous patterned paper that comes in a kit. I don’t know about you but after all the hexagons and chevrons, I’m thrilled to see this little three-sided classic shape get it’s time in the sun again.

And finally Template No. 4 in the Digi Scrap Love Templates features an even more awesome grid design, this time based around one of my personal favorite storytelling methods: top ten lists!

Lists are awesome not only because they’re one of, if not the, easiest form of journaling, but because they create a great foundation for your design as well. I chose to use this template to showcase ten things I want to remember about my little boy, but you could easily use it for vacation faves, monthly faves, etc., too.

Now to channel my inner Price Is Right host, all four of these templates can be yours when you grab the Digi Scrap Love Templates!

These 12×12 templates are limited edition and available only thru tomorrow, Friday November 7th. They’re also the ONLY new 12×12 digital scrapbooking templates I’ll be releasing this year so grab them while you can!

In honor of this weekend’s festivities, I wanted to let you know about a special offer I have going on here at Nettio Designs.

You may know that at the end of last year I made the decision to retire as a digital scrapbooking template designer. While I don’t regret my decision and know it was 100% the right choice at the time, that doesn’t mean I haven’t missed designing this year.

So in honor of Digital Scrapbooking Day, I’ve put together an all-new set of four 12×12-inch digital scrapbooking templates in my signature paper-lovin’ style and I am offering them as a limited edition available only through Friday, November 7th.

The Digi Scrap Love 12×12 Templates are the only single page 12×12 layouts I’ll be releasing in 2014 and they’re only available until Friday, November 7th, so if you’ve been jonesing for some Nettio Designs templates, grab them while you can!

Happy Digital Scrapbooking Day!

P.S. For those of you looking for my photo book templates, I should have those ready for you early this week. I wanted to get these out for DSD first. : )

Happy Sweet Shoppe Saturday everyone! Can you believe the end of 2013 is already here? This week’s release marks not only my final New Release of 2013 but also the final release in one of my absolute FAVE (pun-intended) scrapbooking projects: the Monthly Faves!

For those new to Nettio Designs & the Faves, my Monthly Faves project is a year-long scrapbooking project where each month you scrapbook one layout documenting your top-ten favorite things from that month. Your faves can be anything: events, food, tv shows, technology, clothing – the sky’s the limit!

I’ve done my Monthly Faves project twice before, once in 2009 & again in 2011, and I love it so much I’m doing it again here in 2013. I can’t even tell you how much fun it is to look back on those layouts and see what’s changed and what’s stayed the same. It’s like a mini time-capsule of your favorite things from way-back-when.

Here’s how my 2013 Monthly Faves layouts are shaping up so far this year…

Because it’s the easiest All About Me layout you’ll ever do. Seriously.

And this year I wanted to make it even easier for you to creatively capture your faves. So on the last(ish) Saturday of every month, I’ll be releasing that month’s Faves layout as a new Sweet Single template. Which should give you plenty of time to capture your Faves for that month before the new month arrives.

This week’s release is the final FAVE-O-RITES Sweet Single digital scrapbooking template of the year, FAVE-O-RITES 2013: December Faves. With it being the Christmas season, I thought it made sense to go a little festive with the design this month…

Here’s a bigger look at my 2013 December Faves layout that inspired this template. As you can see, my faves list is super random, which is exactly what I love! It’s not something you have to stress out over: make a list of 10 things, scrap it and boom, you’ve captured an easy snapshot of YOU in your scrapbooks. Just think how much fun it’ll be for you or your kids & grandkids to look back on one day!

Team Awesome Inspiration

Of course my team had a ton of fun this month scrapbooking their own take on the December Faves:

Bundle & Save on the Faves!

Since this is last FAVE-O-RITES release of 2013, I’ve also put together two bundle packs. If you’re looking to round out your Faves template collection, these are the way to go. First up, the FAVE-O-RITES 2013 Half Pack for Jul thru Dec…

And then the complete FAVE-O-RITES 2013 Collection which includes all 12 Faves templates from this year. If you missed out on the Faves in 2013 and are thinking of doing it for 2014, these are a GREAT way to jumpstart your project.

New Release Discount: SAVE 20% thru Saturday

And of course, as with every Sweet Shoppe Saturday, you can SAVE 20% off all new releases thru Saturday, include the December Faves template and both Faves bundle packs.